[Chapter-delegates] JUN MURAI RECOGNIZED WITH THE INTERNET SOCIETY'S POSTEL AWARD

[Terry Weigler]

JUN MURAI RECOGNIZED WITH THE INTERNET SOCIETY'S
POSTEL AWARD 2005 award goes to pioneer behind
development of the Internet in the Asia Pacific region

Reston, VA - 16th August 2005 - Professor Jun Murai is this year's recipient
of the Internet Society's prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. The
award recognises Professor Murai's vision and pioneering work that helped
countless others to spread the Internet across the Asia Pacific region.

The Postel Award was presented during the 63rd meeting of the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Paris, France by Daniel Karrenberg, chair of
this year's Postel award committee, and Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of
the Internet Society.

"Jun Murai has always encouraged, inspired and helped others, particularly his
students and his colleagues in other parts of the Asia Pacific region," said
Karrenberg. "He has also played a key role in creating structures for Internet
coordination in the region (particularly APNIC), and he is widely recognised
for his recent pioneering work in IPv6 implementation."

Jun Murai is currently Vice-President, Keio University in Japan, where he is a
Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Information. In 1984, he developed
the Japan University UNIX Network (JUNET), and in 1988 established the WIDE
Project (a Japanese Internet research consortium) of which he continues to
serve as the General Chairperson. He is President of the Japan Network
Information Center (JPNIC), a former member of the Board of Trustees of the
Internet Society and a former member of ICANN's Board of Directors.

The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award was established by the Internet Society
to honor those who have made outstanding contributions in service to the data
communications community. The award is focused on sustained and substantial
technical contributions, service to the community, and leadership. With
respect to leadership, the nominating committee places particular emphasis on
candidates who have supported and enabled others in addition to their own
specific actions.

The award is named after Dr. Jonathan B. Postel, who embodied all of these
qualities during his extraordinary stewardship over the course of a
thirty-year career in networking. He served as the editor of the RFC series of
notes from its inception in 1969, until 1998. He also served as the ARPANET
"numbers Czar" and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority over the same
period of time. He was a founding member of the Internet Architecture Board
and the first individual member of the Internet Society, where he also served
as a trustee.

Previous recipients of the Postel Award include Jon himself (posthumously and
accepted by his mother), Scott Bradner, Daniel Karrenberg, Stephen Wolff,
Peter Kirstein and Phill Gross. The award consists of an engraved crystal
globe and $20,000.

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ABOUT ISOC

The Internet Society (http://www.isoc.org) is a not-for-profit membership
organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related
standards, education, and policy. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva,
Switzerland, it is dedicated to ensuring the open development, evolution and
use of the Internet for the benefit of people throughout the world. ISOC is
the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and
other Internet-related bodies who together play a critical role in ensuring
that the Internet develops in a stable and open manner. For over 13 years ISOC
has run international network training programs for developing countries and
these have played a vital role in setting up the Internet connections and
networks in virtually every country connecting to the Internet during this
time.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS:

Peter Godwin
Communications Manager, Internet Society
E-mail: godwin at isoc.org
4, rue des Falaises
1205 Geneva
Switzerland